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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CRYSTAL AND CORAL, by LOUIS GINSBERG
First Line: Each tree is armored in ice. Each street
Last Line: Lost atlantis of crystal and coral!
Subject(s): Ice; Trees
First Line: Each tree is armored in ice. Each street
Last Line: Lost atlantis of crystal and coral!
Subject(s): Ice; Trees
Each tree is armored in ice. Each street
Is tiled with a rich and burnished sleet.
Hedges blazon their magic powers
In efforescence of glassy flowers.
A wicket fence in strangest guise
Offers a crystal exercise.
Shingled with brilliant and opaque light
Roof-tops are alabastered bright.
Telegraph poles on every side
Are huge stalagmites that flash their pride.
Enchantment everywhere lights its spells
In all the glittering icicles. . . .
Till passersby are bowed down under
Dazzle of all the opal wonder
Of such a newly discovered floral
Lost Atlantis of crystal and coral!
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